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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Potamilus

species Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820): specimens
     7 available nominal species synonyms (10 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Leptodea leptodon — Graf & Cummings (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ... Chen et al. (2020), Teiga-Teixeira et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2025)
Potamilus leptodon — Smith et al. (2020), Smith & Johnson (2020), Zieritz et al. (2021), FMCS (2021), Wu et al. (2022), ... Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)

Range

Widespread in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio basins, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

USA

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

USA

INHS_44305. (28S: MK036094, 5.8S: MK036177, COI: MK044926, ITS1: MK036177, ND1: MK045077, SRA: SRR10579076, go to Genbank) Illinois River, Illinois drainage (41.3312, -88.5089).

UAUC_135. (16S: AY655050, COI: AY655003, ND1: AY655105, go to Genbank) Meramec River, MO.